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TIL that common vegetables from the Nightshade family such as tomatoes, potatoes and eggplant actually contain nicotine.

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GADGj TIL that China alone accounts for over 90% of global spinach production
yVZ0J TIL that WHAM-O's Slip N' Slide is not supposed to be used by persons over the age of 12. There have been rare instances (and lawsuits) of adults breaking their necks while using it and in 1993, the U.S. CPSC warned that the slide might cause permanent spinal cord injury to teens and adults.
M7Ylm TIL that Genghis Khan strategically married his daughters to allied kings, sending the sons-in-law to fight in Mongol campaigns. As many of them died in battle, his daughters took control, effectively ruling those nations.
bx7N TIL “420” did not originate as police code for marijuana use but for “juvenile disturbance”. The use of “420” for marijuana started in 1971 at San Rafael High School, where it indicated the time, 4:20 pm, when a group of students would go to smoke under the statue of Louis Pasteur
NX71 TIL in a speech to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the Iranian Vice President said that Zionists ordered gynaecologists to kill black babies, caused the Bolshevik revolution and control the international drug trade